What a busy weekend, Good Friday coinciding with Earth Day, Easter Saturday sharing the limelight with Saint George's Day, bottling of the year-and-a-half, barrel-aged, 2009 vintage backyard, handcrafted Syrah - plus Easter Sunday to boot!
This year's volunteer bottling crew was considerably less rowdy than in the past, thanks to fast-flowing physics of a rudimentary syphoning-system requiring minimal man-powered suction initiation.
Fruitier than past vintages and delightfully floral toned, this '09 Que Syra Syrah has a more complex, delicate character than in previous years. With just 18 cases for this particularly low-yielding harvest, at an estimated cost of $14 a bottle to produce, this half acre of hobby vines provides a good indicator of why boutique wines from this region are priced so high. It's just not possible to grow, maintain, pamper appropriately, pick, crush, barrel age and bottle a true artisan, small production farmstead wine in Sonoma County for much less.
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